[Japan]: Swine flu, food and handwriting
Hello,
Oh, you can't remember who I am? And yes, I'm still alive (-___-'')
For some reason my day doesn't seem to have 24hrs. I never have enough time for ANYTHING!!!
Actually it's almost midnight and I should go to bed soon, but I HAVE TO WRITE an entry NOW otherwise I'll never write it .... I guess (^-^)>
The latest "news":
Germany's most famous goalkeeper commits suicide:
He suffered from depressions and stuff and now everybody in Germany seems to talk about this mental disease.
20th anniversary: East and West Germany and the fall of the wall XD
Even here in Japan it was all over on TV! It was kind of funny when I sat in the waiting room of my hospital and suddenly saw Angela Merkel speaking GERMAN on Japanese TV! XDDDD
Japan is a scary place:
The young man who obviously killed the young British English teacher 2 (?) years ago has finally been caught. Scary what he did to her. Scary that the police couldn't catch him until NOW!
When I was out shopping the other day I saw a really cute kid with a teddybear cap and while smiling I stared at him and his mother(?) from behind. Suddenly the mother started kicking the kid and screamed at him. I'm not sure what the kid did, but WTF there's no reason to KICK a kid or be violent to a kid, right?
A few minutes later I was in a bookstore browsing through some magazines when I noticed a really strange smell. An old woman, obviously completely drunk was browsing through magazines as well.
And here Japanese people think their country is so much better and safer than other places. I doubt it, really.
Swine flu spreading like WOAH here in Japan especially among young kids / teenagers:
Probably still the biggest topic - not only here in Japan.
And it's really extreme. The last two weeks we've had almost NO students at all! I had quite a few classes with only ONE student ... or two. That was last week's average (-_-')
Either they're sick, someone in their family is or their class OR school is closed due to the flu which means they're also not allowed to come to our school then. Scary!!!
Very empty classrooms, at times more teachers than students in a class and the students who come wear masks and cough, sneeze etc.
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I bought masks as well as I'm forced to wear them when I visit a hospital or sometimes at work as well XD
Students who already recovered from the swine flu come back too early! I wonder if the doctors here don't tell the mothers that their kids are still contagious after a few days (x__X) ....
I was down around Halloween as you might remember. It was only a cold, but it took over 9 days to go away (x_X) ..... I wonder if my body is still not used to Japanese germs after all that time.
Of course working with young kids doesn't really help either. Even some of my Japanese coworkers told me they got sick very often when they started working with kids.
There's probably more, but I forgot!
That's when you only update every other month or so (x_X) .... for people who are still curious what I'm up to, you can always follow my Twitter. Although I don't write any interesting there either.
Word of the week: 閉鎖 (へいさ) (= close + chain) - used as term for when schools are closed here. Have heard that word at least 1000000 times in the last 2 weeks (^^')>
Food:
My typical rice (mixed with raw egg (*_*) .. well, actually not raw, but onsen tamago) and "tofu burgers". Unfortunately not selfmade, but they sold them at my local supermarket and they were fresh and still warm and tasted AWESOME!!
I hope they'll sell it again soon, because I'm sure I'm tooooooo stupid to make them by myself (never have cooked anything with tofu although I LOVE tofu ....)
Btw. anybody knows any EASY and yummie tofu recipes??? (*_*)> .....
This weekend I cooked again. As it's cold it was another veggie soup again. ミネストローネスープ❤
I couldn't find all ingredients. One was 水煮豆 - and I wasn't exactly sure what it was.
I ended up buying these which ..... was not the right one, because they're sweet and meant as desert (^-^)> .....
Anyway I used more potatoes and cabbage instead and it turned out quite well. It was really yummie!~
I like the other one I cooked before that (see older entry) better, though (broccoli!!)
As I still had so much cabbage left (and actually there's still some LEFT now!! x_X ...) I decided to make salad for lunch today.
Actually this was the first time I made salad since I came to Japan (^-^)> ........................
It was really yummie! Forgot how good selfmade salad tastes! Should do that more often, but maybe I should wait for warmer days again ;P
I also bought this one the other day which is VERY yummie!!
It came with a dredger(?) and extra cocoa powder (*___*)v
It's very yummie and almost tastes like real hot chocolate. Perfect for winter :D
Japanese:
Lately I haven't really made any progress that would be worth mentioning here. As always I could write a long rant about many things regarding my studies and about how I never have enough time and stuff, but .... let's skip that for today.
I was ranting a lot about my HORRIBLE handwriting skills over at Twitter and people asked me to show some photos and stuff.
I really don't wanna do it because it's soooooooooooo~ embarrassing!!! (/・ω・＼) ハズカシイ
I'm not sure how it all started, I think it was because I suddenly wanted to write a letter to my former host family and Yumi-chan (hope you still remember her?).
As you might know I've been practicing kanji for over a year and I have no problem at all writing the most difficult kanji using the correct stroke order etc., but they're ugly because I never paid much attention to proportion or beautiful writing until now and my hiragana and katakana look HORRIBLE like ... those of a .... 2-year old??? .... AARRGH!! That's because in all that time I never practiced writing them AT ALL!!!!!! AT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!
And so ... trying to write a letter made me want to slap myself several times. It looked so damn horrible ... too manly ... and just wrong!!!
Just like a kindergarten kid, but .... because there are so many complicated kanji as well, people will come to the only other logical conclusion: must be a foreigner's handwriting!!!
Furthermore all my female coworkers have such a cute handwriting!!! Although I KNOW in my head how it's supposed to look, my hands can't do it!
Although it'll cost me precious study time .... and although it's really not so important to have a nice handwriting ... it has been bothering me for a while now and so I started practicing!
I even got a coworker correct my stuff from time to time for me.
She suggested that I go back and study the basics, starting with hiragana (^-^)> .... *sigh* ....
It probably will take forever .... or maybe I'll never have an acceptable handwriting -___-; ....
The blue one is her handwriting, the pencil ones with red all over the place is mine (x_x)
Although I really didn't want to do it I went and bought ...
Writing practice stuff for kindergarten kids .... (x__X) ... (please ignore the one kanji drill book for 6th graders XD)
Well, they're nice .... but I'm not sure if it'll really help.
What's good about them is that you can use a whiteboard marker and erase everything again and again.
And I also have this:
I'm not sure if I ever wrote about these? I've bought them a long time ago. They're called "Diablog" and I found them thanks to nighstar.
I bought them in order to practice writing regularly but so far haven't used them at all, because I thought I still suck too much ..... but I guess in order to not suck anymore I have to use them (^-^)> .... *sigh* (ノ_-;)
They're really cute and you can decorate your entries with stickers or photos and stuff ^-^; ..... maybe that'll help to distract from my ugly handwriting then (⌒^⌒)ｂ
Btw. if you have any tips for my, please let me know! I'm pretty sure that ALL OF YOU have a nicer handwriting anyway!
I found some websites like this one, but in the end they only can help a little bit as well.
Poupéegirl:
My Halloween costume. Not very creative, but well.
Teddybear day ❤
And now there's a party event
and they have all those yummie things and .... I think my poupée might get fat!!! XDDDD .... And I spent money on jewels again, oh noes!
There's probably more to report, but that's it for today.
I'm actually quite angry
as there is still so much on my to-do-list, but the day is over again. And it's not because I'm a slacker or anything .... it's just that the day is over before I could finish everything there is to do ...... I FUCKING HATE THAT!!!!
And it's not only today .... it happens way too often.
Not a nice way to end an entry, but .... who cares?
Oh, well .... to be fair, you guys should get a chance to get fat as well, so here you are:
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バイ☆⌒ヽ(*'、^*)chu
Oh, you can't remember who I am? And yes, I'm still alive (-___-'')
For some reason my day doesn't seem to have 24hrs. I never have enough time for ANYTHING!!!
Actually it's almost midnight and I should go to bed soon, but I HAVE TO WRITE an entry NOW otherwise I'll never write it .... I guess (^-^)>
The latest "news":
Germany's most famous goalkeeper commits suicide:
He suffered from depressions and stuff and now everybody in Germany seems to talk about this mental disease.
20th anniversary: East and West Germany and the fall of the wall XD
Even here in Japan it was all over on TV! It was kind of funny when I sat in the waiting room of my hospital and suddenly saw Angela Merkel speaking GERMAN on Japanese TV! XDDDD
Japan is a scary place:
The young man who obviously killed the young British English teacher 2 (?) years ago has finally been caught. Scary what he did to her. Scary that the police couldn't catch him until NOW!
When I was out shopping the other day I saw a really cute kid with a teddybear cap and while smiling I stared at him and his mother(?) from behind. Suddenly the mother started kicking the kid and screamed at him. I'm not sure what the kid did, but WTF there's no reason to KICK a kid or be violent to a kid, right?
A few minutes later I was in a bookstore browsing through some magazines when I noticed a really strange smell. An old woman, obviously completely drunk was browsing through magazines as well.
And here Japanese people think their country is so much better and safer than other places. I doubt it, really.
Swine flu spreading like WOAH here in Japan especially among young kids / teenagers:
Probably still the biggest topic - not only here in Japan.
And it's really extreme. The last two weeks we've had almost NO students at all! I had quite a few classes with only ONE student ... or two. That was last week's average (-_-')
Either they're sick, someone in their family is or their class OR school is closed due to the flu which means they're also not allowed to come to our school then. Scary!!!
Very empty classrooms, at times more teachers than students in a class and the students who come wear masks and cough, sneeze etc.
⇓
I bought masks as well as I'm forced to wear them when I visit a hospital or sometimes at work as well XD
Students who already recovered from the swine flu come back too early! I wonder if the doctors here don't tell the mothers that their kids are still contagious after a few days (x__X) ....
I was down around Halloween as you might remember. It was only a cold, but it took over 9 days to go away (x_X) ..... I wonder if my body is still not used to Japanese germs after all that time.
Of course working with young kids doesn't really help either. Even some of my Japanese coworkers told me they got sick very often when they started working with kids.
There's probably more, but I forgot!
That's when you only update every other month or so (x_X) .... for people who are still curious what I'm up to, you can always follow my Twitter. Although I don't write any interesting there either.
Word of the week: 閉鎖 (へいさ) (= close + chain) - used as term for when schools are closed here. Have heard that word at least 1000000 times in the last 2 weeks (^^')>
Food:
My typical rice (mixed with raw egg (*_*) .. well, actually not raw, but onsen tamago) and "tofu burgers". Unfortunately not selfmade, but they sold them at my local supermarket and they were fresh and still warm and tasted AWESOME!!
I hope they'll sell it again soon, because I'm sure I'm tooooooo stupid to make them by myself (never have cooked anything with tofu although I LOVE tofu ....)
Btw. anybody knows any EASY and yummie tofu recipes??? (*_*)> .....
This weekend I cooked again. As it's cold it was another veggie soup again. ミネストローネスープ❤
I couldn't find all ingredients. One was 水煮豆 - and I wasn't exactly sure what it was.
I ended up buying these which ..... was not the right one, because they're sweet and meant as desert (^-^)> .....
Anyway I used more potatoes and cabbage instead and it turned out quite well. It was really yummie!~
I like the other one I cooked before that (see older entry) better, though (broccoli!!)
As I still had so much cabbage left (and actually there's still some LEFT now!! x_X ...) I decided to make salad for lunch today.
Actually this was the first time I made salad since I came to Japan (^-^)> ........................
It was really yummie! Forgot how good selfmade salad tastes! Should do that more often, but maybe I should wait for warmer days again ;P
I also bought this one the other day which is VERY yummie!!
It came with a dredger(?) and extra cocoa powder (*___*)v
It's very yummie and almost tastes like real hot chocolate. Perfect for winter :D
Japanese:
Lately I haven't really made any progress that would be worth mentioning here. As always I could write a long rant about many things regarding my studies and about how I never have enough time and stuff, but .... let's skip that for today.
I was ranting a lot about my HORRIBLE handwriting skills over at Twitter and people asked me to show some photos and stuff.
I really don't wanna do it because it's soooooooooooo~ embarrassing!!! (/・ω・＼) ハズカシイ
I'm not sure how it all started, I think it was because I suddenly wanted to write a letter to my former host family and Yumi-chan (hope you still remember her?).
As you might know I've been practicing kanji for over a year and I have no problem at all writing the most difficult kanji using the correct stroke order etc., but they're ugly because I never paid much attention to proportion or beautiful writing until now and my hiragana and katakana look HORRIBLE like ... those of a .... 2-year old??? .... AARRGH!! That's because in all that time I never practiced writing them AT ALL!!!!!! AT ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!
And so ... trying to write a letter made me want to slap myself several times. It looked so damn horrible ... too manly ... and just wrong!!!
Just like a kindergarten kid, but .... because there are so many complicated kanji as well, people will come to the only other logical conclusion: must be a foreigner's handwriting!!!
Furthermore all my female coworkers have such a cute handwriting!!! Although I KNOW in my head how it's supposed to look, my hands can't do it!
Although it'll cost me precious study time .... and although it's really not so important to have a nice handwriting ... it has been bothering me for a while now and so I started practicing!
I even got a coworker correct my stuff from time to time for me.
She suggested that I go back and study the basics, starting with hiragana (^-^)> .... *sigh* ....
It probably will take forever .... or maybe I'll never have an acceptable handwriting -___-; ....
The blue one is her handwriting, the pencil ones with red all over the place is mine (x_x)
Although I really didn't want to do it I went and bought ...
Writing practice stuff for kindergarten kids .... (x__X) ... (please ignore the one kanji drill book for 6th graders XD)
Well, they're nice .... but I'm not sure if it'll really help.
What's good about them is that you can use a whiteboard marker and erase everything again and again.
And I also have this:
I'm not sure if I ever wrote about these? I've bought them a long time ago. They're called "Diablog" and I found them thanks to nighstar.
I bought them in order to practice writing regularly but so far haven't used them at all, because I thought I still suck too much ..... but I guess in order to not suck anymore I have to use them (^-^)> .... *sigh* (ノ_-;)
They're really cute and you can decorate your entries with stickers or photos and stuff ^-^; ..... maybe that'll help to distract from my ugly handwriting then (⌒^⌒)ｂ
Btw. if you have any tips for my, please let me know! I'm pretty sure that ALL OF YOU have a nicer handwriting anyway!
I found some websites like this one, but in the end they only can help a little bit as well.
Poupéegirl:
My Halloween costume. Not very creative, but well.
Teddybear day ❤
And now there's a party event
and they have all those yummie things and .... I think my poupée might get fat!!! XDDDD .... And I spent money on jewels again, oh noes!
There's probably more to report, but that's it for today.
I'm actually quite angry
as there is still so much on my to-do-list, but the day is over again. And it's not because I'm a slacker or anything .... it's just that the day is over before I could finish everything there is to do ...... I FUCKING HATE THAT!!!!
And it's not only today .... it happens way too often.
Not a nice way to end an entry, but .... who cares?
Oh, well .... to be fair, you guys should get a chance to get fat as well, so here you are:
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バイ☆⌒ヽ(*'、^*)chu